How big does a Long-eared flying mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Long-eared flying mouse (Idiurus macrotis) reaches an average size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 27 grams (0.06 lbs). The Long-eared flying mouse (genus: Idiurus) is a member of the family Anomaluridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The long-eared flying mouse (Idiurus macrotis) or long-eared scaly-tailed flying squirrel, is a species of flying mouse from western and central Africa. It is not actually a squirrel, nor a mouse, though it is a rodent. Not much is known about them because they are very hard to keep alive in captivity.To achieve gliding flight, it uses two membranes (patagia) which fold up when not in use. When the limbs are stretched wide in a star-shape, the membranes become taut and allow the rodent to glide from tree to tree. Being arboreal, Idiurus spends all of its time in the trees, living in hollow trunks in groups of 2 to 40. Limit information suggests that it is mainly frugivorous. It has a long tail in proportion to its body, sporting two lines of raised scales, and patches of scaly skin to help it grip trees, but the rest of its body is furry. The tail is longer than the body and is also used to balance, like a primate’s tail. Long-eared scaly-tailed flying squirrels are about 20 cm long and weigh 30g. In comparison, the body of a common household mouse is approximately 10 cm long and its tail is approximately 5 cm.
Animals of the same family as a Long-eared flying mouse
We found other animals of the Anomaluridae family:
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel with a weight of 479 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
- Cameroon scaly-tail with a weight of 200 grams
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Pel’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Long-eared flying mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-eared flying mouse:
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater false vampire bat with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Long-eared flying mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Idiurus macrotis:
- Angolan free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Northern gracile opossum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Grey dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Greater long-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Crafty vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- California pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale